At Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., one E. L. Gaylor, student in physiology, breathed pure oxygen as hard as he could for six minutes, saturating his lungs with the gas. One last big lungful he then held, for 14 min., 2 sec.long enough for a police-man to walk one mile. The previous breath-holding record is reported to have been approximately ten minutes, at the University of California, in 1916. Were Breather Gaylor to attempt living in an atmosphere surcharged with pure oxygen he would soon become drowsy, lose appetite, weight, and finding real...
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